on something else besides fighting - and a very wise step it seems to me - The Post through to Tauranga will be started by the 12th of next month. It will leave here every other Monday at noon and be at Tauranga on the Saturday evening - Return mail will leave Tauranga on Monday the 19th Decr. and arrive here on the following Saturday and so on - The whole cost will be £276 a year - Napier to Taupo £126 - Taupo to Tauranga £150 - There were 21 tenders for this end of the line and a number for the other. The Constabulary officers grumble that fortnightly post is not sufficient I should think it ample for all their requirements - The Post now carried by them from Napier to Taupo costs £800 a year at a very low estimate - The season here still keeps most beautiful the Plains are covered with feed which is rotting by thousands of tons the stock being quite insufficient to keep it down - I must close it is very late - Yours very truly J. D. Ormond I have sent copy my letter to Gisborne re Blackett's instructions. J.D. O.